Malice
Rogue · Assassination · available from the first tier · 5 ranks
Malice works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Malice ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks and Poisons by 5%.
What Malice does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases your critical strike chance by 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your critical strike chance by 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your critical strike chance by 3%.
- Rank 4 Increases your critical strike chance by 4%.
- Rank 5 Increases your critical strike chance by 5%.
Where Malice sits in the Assassination tree
Malice is a Assassination talent for Rogue. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away. Taking it opens Lethality.
- Unlocks: Lethality
- Same row: Improved Gouge, Remorseless Attacks
How often people take Malice
11 of the 146 public Rogue builds saved here — 8% — put at least one point in Malice. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Malice
8 of the public Rogue builds written up here spend points on Malice.
- Rogue Assassination 26/25/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Assassination 38/11/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 16/33/2 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 18/33/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 18/33/0 — 5/5
- Rogue Combat 22/29/0 — 5/5
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.69893